Santa Clara, Calif.- NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, today announced the ExpressCluster® X LAN Edition supporting both Linux® and Microsoft® Windows®. ExpressCluster X is NEC’s next-generation family of integrated application and disaster recovery software designed to empower businesses and organizations with high availability solutions for applications and data that need to be up and running 24 hours a day.

NEC ExpressCluster X LAN’s broad-based application and operating system support enables a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for high availability solutions. In addition, support of software-based transactional data mirroring eliminates the need for proprietary storage hardware systems, which further lowers TCO.

“Virtualization and consolidation are accelerating in the marketplace, but many businesses haven’t yet faced challenges of unplanned downtime for applications running in a virtualized environment,” said Jean Bozman, research vice president, IDC. “NEC’s ExpressCluster X LAN, with its built-in cluster-enablement and integrated management for a broad base of ISV applications, provides a high availability (HA) software solution that reduces the need for custom scripting to protect production ISV applications, addressing customers’ operational costs.”

“Organizations need total system protection - for both their applications and their data,” said George Wu, director of software business for NEC Corporation of America’s IT Platform Group. “ExpressCluster X LAN is an integrated solution enhanced to provide organizations with superior performance, usability, and cost of ownership in a high availability solution.”

NEC ExpressCluster X LAN on Windows is available immediately and NEC ExpressCluster X LAN for Linux will be available in September. Product licenses start at $3,750 per physical server.